IDC CIO Summit Turkiye 2026: Agentic Systems and the Next Chapter for Turkish CIO Leadership

This IDC Perspective summarizes the key themes and consequential implications from IDC's 17th CIO Summit Turkiye, held on May 6-7 2026 at Elite World Grand, Sapanca, Turkiye, under the banner "The Rise of Agentic Systems." The event brought together more than 400 CIOs, CTOs, and senior technology leaders to discuss AI-powered enterprise transformation. This document distills the most consequential themes, on-stage debates, and customer stories from the event."Turkiye now has the talent, the leadership, the case studies and, increasingly, the local infrastructure to compete at the leading edge of the agent economy. The 17th IDC CIO Summit Turkiye made clear that the Turkish CIO is ready to lead that conversation. The next move is to scale." - Eren Eser, associate research director, IDC's Global Services Insights